Catherine Noakes
About Catherine Noakes
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- School of Civil Engineering, University of Leeds
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Recent Contributions
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Catherine Noakes replied to "New research on UV" in the TB Infection Control community.
You may be interested to hear that we have a new research project on UVGI commencing shortly at Leeds University in the UK. It will be a three year study based on mathematical modelling to evaluate how UV lights interact with the airflow and where such lights should best be used in different healthcare environments. Now we have direct and up-to-date evidence from Peru and South Africa on the real world efficacy of this technology, ...
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Catherine Noakes replied to "Isolation rooms for MDR TB patients - Window and design details" in the TB Infection Control community.
Dear Ana, Following Ed's comments, I agree - natural ventilation does complicate the design of such rooms as the inherant variability induced by reliance on the outdoor conditions means that guaranteing airflow and pressure conditions in isolation rooms is much harder. Your isolation room design has two purposes (1) to minimise transmission to people outside the room - achieved in conventional isolation room design by creating a pressure gradient with the ventilation system to ensure ...
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Catherine Noakes replied to "Engineering control" in the TB Infection Control community.
Just to clarify, the paper referred to about turbulence and UV is about UV installed in ventilation ducts rather than upper-room systems. Turbulence may be an important parameter for an in-duct system, simply because you only have one shot at disinfecting the air and therefore design of the unit has to be such to maximise kill at a particular flow rate. As an upper-room system relies on circulation of the contaminated air from the occupied ...
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